POLAND: Possum-in-the-box

That
strutting player whom many a Pole admires, Dictator-Marshal Josef
Pilsudski, played again last week the now famous role which he enacts
whenever the Sejm (Parliament) attempts to disobey him.

This time it
was a matter of the budget. At the bill's first two readings the
Deputies had cut, slashed and patched it—over-riding the demands of
the Government a dozen times. Vice Premier Bartel, twittering, rushed
out to Marshal Pilsudski's suburban home for advice.